From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753632AbaFTTLW (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:11:22 -0400 Received: from mail.savoirfairelinux.com ([209.172.62.77]:63317 "EHLO mail.savoirfairelinux.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751984AbaFTTLV (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:11:21 -0400 Message-ID: <53A48855.2010102@savoirfairelinux.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:15:33 -0400 From: Sebastien Bourdelin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Deng-Cheng Zhu , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle , "Steven J. Hill" , John Crispin , Qais Yousef CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jerome Oufella Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MIPS: APRP: Fix an issue when device_create() fails. References: <1403209823-6376-1-git-send-email-sebastien.bourdelin@savoirfairelinux.com> <53A4702D.3090503@imgtec.com> In-Reply-To: <53A4702D.3090503@imgtec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, correct me if i'm wrong, but if we pre-decrement, it will decrement before evaluate and the channel 0 will never be destroy. So the while condition must change too accordingly. In any case inside the while loop, "i" will be "i - 1" so we destroy the previously device. I think it's correct like this. On 06/20/2014 01:32 PM, Deng-Cheng Zhu wrote: > On 06/19/2014 01:30 PM, Sebastien Bourdelin wrote: >> If a call to device_create() fails for a channel during the initialize >> loop, we need to clean the devices entries already created before >> leaving. >> >> Signed-off-by: Sebastien Bourdelin >> --- >> arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c | 3 +++ >> arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c | 3 +++ >> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c >> index 758fb3c..d26dcc4 100644 >> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c >> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-cmp.c >> @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ int __init rtlx_module_init(void) >> dev = device_create(mt_class, NULL, MKDEV(major, i), NULL, >> "%s%d", RTLX_MODULE_NAME, i); >> if (IS_ERR(dev)) { >> + while (i--) > --i? > >> + device_destroy(mt_class, MKDEV(major, i)); >> + >> err = PTR_ERR(dev); >> goto out_chrdev; >> } >> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c >> index 5a66b97..cb95470 100644 >> --- a/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c >> +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/rtlx-mt.c >> @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ int __init rtlx_module_init(void) >> dev = device_create(mt_class, NULL, MKDEV(major, i), NULL, >> "%s%d", RTLX_MODULE_NAME, i); >> if (IS_ERR(dev)) { >> + while (i--) > Same here. > >> + device_destroy(mt_class, MKDEV(major, i)); >> + >> err = PTR_ERR(dev); >> goto out_chrdev; >> } > > > Deng-Cheng > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/